Larry Kudlow needs your help . . . . . should he or shouldn't he run against Schumer?

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

DRAFT LARRY KUDLOW FOR NEW YORK

Many New Yorkers agree: it would be difficult to find a federal legislator as bad as US Senator Chuck Schumer. Schumer is personally responsible for much of the bad policy that led to the economic melt down of the United States. He stands firmly in favor of health care reform that is bad for New Yorkers. He supports a tax on banks that is poison for the Empire State. And now, petty bully Schumer is muscling members of his own party, pretending only he may decide who can and cannot run against his hand puppet, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

Until Scott Brown was elected to the US Senate by the loopy liberals in Massachusetts, nobody thought it was possible to beat Schumer. Now the game has changed.

There is one potential candidate to oppose Schumer, whose campaign coffers already contain more than $30 million. New York Tea Party leaders are talking up the potential candidacy of CNBC commentator and former Reagan advisor Larry Kudlow. A graduate of the University of Rochester, Kudlow also worked for New York's legendary Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. As one of the architects of the Reagan tax-cuts that sparked one of the greatest economic booms in modern times, he is recognized as a leading anti-tax supply side economist. The thoughtful, well-spoken and original analyst is one of the most effective debaters on the Right.

New York deserves a better Senator than Chuck Schumer - far, far better. Help us convince Larry Kudlow to enter the Senate race; please enter your information here to join the Draft Kudlow Committee.

Let's deliver Chuck Schumer his own Scott Brown. Nobody deserves it more.


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1. ‘Draft Kudlow’ Movement Picking Up Steam

A rising voice is calling for CNBC talk host and supply-side economist Larry Kudlow to challenge liberal New York Sen. Chuck Schumer in this year’s election.

And Kudlow said he is going to give a possible run “careful consideration.”

Newsmax first disclosed that Kudlow could have political aspirations back in March 2009, reporting that he was mulling a bid for Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd’s Senate seat from Connecticut. Kudlow announced several weeks later that he wasn’t running.

But on Jan. 20, Newsmax reported that “the New York political scene is buzzing with talk of a movement to draft Larry Kudlow” to run as a Republican challenger to Schumer.

Several media outlets cited and/or linked to the Newsmax story in the days that followed, including Politico and The Village Voice in New York.

Then on Sunday, Jan. 24, the Buffalo News reported that Michael Caputo, who served as a speechwriter for Rep. Jack Kemp, is leading an online movement to draft Kudlow for the race, and has set up a Web site at www.draftkudlow.com.

“No one in New York State deserves to stay home more than Chuck Schumer, and I really believe Larry Kudlow is the one person who can send him home,” he told the newspaper.

And Caputo told Newsmax: “It’s time for Chuck Schumer to be sent packing.”

Kudlow has served as chief economist for several Wall Street firms, and was an economics adviser to President Ronald Reagan. He now runs his own economics research firm, hosts CNBC’s “The Kudlow Report” and “The Call” programs, and hosts “The Larry Kudlow Show” on WABC Radio on Saturdays.

Caputo and his group aim to collect 100,000 signatures online to help convince Kudlow to enter the Senate race.

Nearly 1,000 people signed up on the first day the Web site was up, Newsmax has learned, and Kudlow’s office has been flooded with calls and e-mails, almost all of them urging him to run.

A “Draft Larry Kudlow” site is up and running on Facebook. A typical entry reads, “Finally, someone with conservative credentials and name recognition . . . Mr. Kudlow, please consider running.”

New York State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long said he signed up on the Facebook site.

“I would be very pre-disposed to support Larry if he runs for Schumer’s seat,” Long told the Albany Times Union.

“He’s a pro-growth conservative. He understands how you can create jobs. He would fight for policies that would create job growth. If he was ever to go to the United States Senate, he would become the leading voice for a pro-growth economy that would cut spending, cut taxes, and create jobs.”

At one point, the prospect of unseating Schumer in blue state New York seemed a long shot. First elected in 1998, he serves as the vice chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus and is considered the third most powerful Democrat in the Senate. He won re-election in 2004 with more than 70 percent of the vote, and is said to have amassed a campaign war chest of more than $30 million for this year’s race.

But the stunning Jan. 19 election win by Republican Scott Brown in blue state Massachusetts has changed that thinking.

Before that election, “the idea of running Larry Kudlow for the Senate was a wish,” Caputo told Newsmax. “And thanks to Scott Brown, we now know that wishes can come true.”

Caputo told Politico’s Ben Smith: “With Scott Brown winning in Massachusetts, it’s clear that not even Sen. Chuck Schumer is safe.”

Asked for his reaction to the move to enlist him against Schumer, Kudlow told Newsmax early in the week only that he is “honored by the talk and the consideration.”

But on Thursday, he told New York radio-host Curtis Sliwa: “I’m going to give all this careful attention. And I do believe that retiring Sen. Schumer would be a noble cause, and at the present time that’s about all I can say.”

As Brown’s victory shows, anything can happen.